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The environmental remediation of the harbor, is aimed at extracting around 47 vessels made from steel and wood.
According to the project of the Port Authority, Geocuba and Citma, the amount represents about 42 000 tons of material.
Despite the scope of the program scheduled to continue until the end of September, Gonzalez Diaz said that will not be touched any of wrecks of heritage value considered such as the US ship Merrimac, and French sailboat Bluette.
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The time frame for the US Congress to challenge a decision by President Obama to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, will expire tomorrow.
Cuba is inserted in the development of inmunotherapies against cancer, with several projects of research and biotechnological products in trials for the treatment of this condition, which is the leading cause of death in the country.
These products include Cimavax EGF, a therapeutic vaccine for advanced lung cancer.
It was developed in the Center of Molecular Immunology (CMI). The results are presented at an international workshop opened this Tuesday in Havana, with the presence of specialists of Sri Lanka, Serbia, Peru and Costa Rica.
In statements to Prensa Latina, Agustín Lage, director of the CMI, explained that Cimavax EGF is opening road in the world.
Several clinical trials are underway in countries of Europe and Latin America. The interest in the product is growing , as it was shown by American scientists who recently visited the island.
It is shifting the burden of cancer desease in the population, not because there is more cancer cases, but because people live longer, he said.
‘ Malignant tumors, just as other diseases such as strokes and heart problems increase with age, so to the extent that we have more people in old age, there will be a higher prevalence of cancer. At the same time, patients have more survival, because the treatments are better ‘, he said.
‘ This positive development demands more drugs, because these are long-lasting treatments. It carries out the necessity of having more factories,and a more productive scale, he added. Publish by Prensa Latina
Havana says Total will explore in Gulf of Mexico as French president promises to be ‘faithful ally’ to Communist-run country
Cuba has announced an oil exploration deal with France in the Gulf of Mexico after the French president, François Hollande, made a historic visit to Cuba in which he called on the United States to end its trade embargo on the Communist-run country.
French oil major Total signed an agreement on Monday to explore for offshore oil with Cuban state oil monopoly CubaPetroleo (Cupet). Cuban state-run television reported the exploration agreement without giving further details.
On Monday Hollande said France “will be a faithful ally” to Cuba as the country reforms its centrally planned economy and tries to re-enter the global economic system.
Publish by The Guardian
Francois Hollande arrived in Havana late Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century.
The visit is aimed at boosting French and European Union interests in Cuba, which has undergone gradual economic and social reforms under Castro.
The French leader said removing the embargo was key to opening Cuba up to the rest of the world, adding that despite the move toward thawing relations with Washington, economic barriers remain.
“There are still a lot of measures in place that block trade and business,” Hollande said. Publish by Business Insider
“Cuban President Raul Castro has made a rare visit to the Vatican where he met Pope Francis. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman, reporting from Havana, says Sunday’s meeting in Rome doesn’t just signal closer ties but also left Cuba’s communist leader inspired.